Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises' fast-casual Asian chain Wow Bao is opening its fifth location today at 2806 N. Clark St. in Lakeview. The restaurant—the northernmost Lettuce restaurant in Chicago—will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Friday and lunch and dinner on weekends. Wow Bao also has restaurants open for part of the year at two Major Leagues Baseball ballparks: U.S. Cellular Field and Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Kevin Hickey's Duck Inn, now backed by Rockit Ranch, will open in as soon as two weeks in Bridgeport, Hickey tells Eater. The former Allium chef says he used the building's original hardwood floors and exposed brick and outfitted the place with midcentury modern furniture and decorations. Look for burgers, duck confit, foie gras tamale, a duck fat hot dog, Korean pancake fritters with kimchee aioli, chili cheese fries and fried Buffalo chicken thighs stuffed with chorizo in the bar area, and “more serious cuisine” in the dining room, including a tasting menu. Hickey is now a partner at Rockit Ranch, whose role, Hickey says, will be limited to marketing and other business-side support.

Ten Mile House opens today at 4:30 in Evanston. Unite Urban Grill owner Joe Krouse and two partners own the 110-seat dining room, which features wood-burning-oven pizzas, smoked meats and other comfort food, as well as salads.

Another Charlie Trotter disciple is heading back to Chicago. Jozih Korotkov, who spent time at the late chef's namesake kitchen, as well as the Berghoff and Black Sheep, will lead the kitchen at the Marriott hotel in the Illinois Medical District. Korotkov was most recently executive chef at Esperante, a fine dining restaurant at Chateau Elan in Miami. He will be moving the menu at the restaurant, Rook's Corner, An American Bistro, more toward organic items, hotel officials said.

Bow Truss Coffee Roasters plans to open two new coffee shops in the coming months, including one in the Loop, founder Phil Tadros told Roast Magazine's Daily Coffee News. The Chicago-based roaster will open a 1,000-square-foot bar inside the Metropolitan Tower on Michigan Avenue at Jackson Boulevard in about six months, and another location in Logan Square near the Logan Square Blue Line station by April. Bow Truss, which has three storefronts, in Pilsen, River North and Lakeview, also is working on a 10,000-square-foot roaster and warehouse in the Loop. The fast-growing coffee purveyor has recently inked an exclusive supply pact with the forthcoming Virgin Hotel in Chicago and was named the official coffee for Broadway in Chicago's five theaters.

North Shore veteran Peggy Ryan has taken over as executive chef at Artisanal, a specialty grocer in Wilmette. The gourmet grocery store, at 414 Linden Ave., opened in 2012 and features in-house prepared foods and meats. Ryan, who for 12 years owned Evanston's beloved Va Pensiero, was most recently an instructor at the Kendall College School of Culinary Arts and chef of the school's fine dining restaurant. Her resume also includes stints at Leslee's and Cafe Provencal. “It's great to be working on the North Shore again after a 12-year hiatus,” Ryan said in a statement. “It's a dream come true.”